Thalia's POV
I guess with the people seeing Kade and Ronan talk, the tensions saw that there was no need for there to be so much tension and for them to keep waiting for something to happen.
One by one, they went back to their business, and acted like they weren't even waiting for something.
That's except for the few two of three people that I could make out in the sea of people, that still looked on and waited.
I'd like to say that they were the kind of people that would wait near a smoke and pray that it grows into a fire.
And what's crazier is that I didn't think of these people as desperate assholes that got a thrill when things like fights would seem to be inevitable.
I saw them as people that just had a thing about them, that made it easier for them to be able to see an inevitable fight about to start.
With them not scattering, I was already fearing for the worst.
However, as I was busy with the flurry of thoughts that came crashing down on me in a matter of minutes, Kade and Ronan decided that I was time for them to have a conversation, and not just a long pausing game after saying something.
"Seems kind of ironical that the person that the judges and the moon goddess have selected to become my Luna, was your Luna."
It was a rage bait for sure, and even though Ronan tried to hide it, I noticed that it had gotten to him.
He then went ahead and fired one back at me and Kade when he said, "Just so you know, she has really fast hands and legs.
She might hop out of here if you don't keep your eyes on her."
I didn't realize that in that moment, Ronan was talking about how I could escape, and potentially hint that I would have to disappear when it happened.
Here's a better breakdown of what that meant.
I got the feeling that he was implying that the moment Kade would even dare let his sights off of me, even if it would be for a fraction of a second, Ronan would be waiting for me on the other side.
So yes, I still had to think which one was better. Whether stay with Kade, or run back to Ronan, or even end up dead for having pissed Kade.
It was easy pissing off Ronan because there was no way that I was going to find my way back to him, when I could he doing something to me.
What I didn't expect was for Kade to smile at Ronan. Yes, he smiled at him and said,
"She isn't going anywhere. This little mutt is now the Luna of the Obsidian Howl Pack, a feat that one can't simply run away from."
That statement was said with pride and finality, proving that I no longer had a say in my life.
It was either I become the proper Luna of the Obsidian Howl Pack, or I become the Luna of the Obsidian Howl Pack.
There wasn't any other compromise.
The more I thought about it, the more I was getting the hint that even with Kade's threat to me and him saying the only purpose that I had in his pack was to give him an heir, there was also the possibility that he wasn't going to let me go even after that.
I would still be expected to play my role as the Luna of the Pack, since such a void was not to be sealed and then reopened.
To the best of me knowledge, that would only make Alpha Kade seem weak.
That was not an impression that even he would want to circulate the pack.
The longer I stretched my mind to the foreseeable future, the more I realized that there were two main roads for me to take.
One of them was making sure that I kept myself from being pregnant and carrying Kade's heir, since he wasn't going to toss me out because I was taking too long.
I mean, during the trials, they had taken some of our blood as samples to test whether we were fertile.
And the fact that I still qualified to go further with the trials means that I was fertile.
The second road that would somehow keep me alive in the pack for a long time was breaking under Kade's pressure.
From his demand of what was expected of me, if I gave him an heir, it would only seem right that I would have to be around to take care of the child and act as the Luna for as long as I wanted.
This however came at a cost, and that was taking the risk that came with Kade's threat.
He told me that the moment I was going to give him an heir, I was bound to be discarded like trash and that would be the end of me.
I thought about it and even after I had told myself that there was no way that the pack elders and the pack was going to believe that I was coincidentally dead just after giving their Alpha an heir.
Even though I tried comforting myself with that, the one thing that was permanent was that Kade was the Alpha of the pack.
And whatever he was going to do to me, no one had the capacity to question it.
The more I stood there and listened to the man who had taken me through hell, and the one that was clearly about to take me through it tenfold, I knew that things were not going to be better for me no matter how much I tried.
I even thought about how I was bound to suffer, no matter where I went and who I found on the other side.
As I was deep in my thoughts, I didn't realize that the two men had been talking, and somehow exchanging words.
I only came back to reality and to my senses when Alpha Kade turned his attention to me.
"Find somewhere else to stand." He told me.
Was I going to ask him what he meant by that or why he was telling me to fuck off?
Absolutely not.
I welcomed the idea of stepping away from both men when the moment was going to arise, and I wasn't going to waste that.
So, without a second thought about it, I quickly turned and walked away, leaving those men to keep measuring their egoes like the egoistical men that they were.
I wasn't going to take another second standing there in their presence.
However, I didn't know where I was heading as I just walked and didn't look back.
My head was preoccupied with the thought of getting myself as far away from them as possible, that I didn't even realize that as I walked, people were keeping away from me as I walked.
They were literally stepping away from the path that I was taking, the same way that they always did for Kade.
But since my head was preoccupied with so much thoughts and worry, I didn't realize it then.
Little did I know, I was walking away from two men that were getting me so riled up with hate and disgust, only for me to walk straight towards a group of men that were only going to make it worse.
By the time I realized where I was walking to, it was too late.
I found myself standing right in front of Beta Cassian, and I could see it on his face that he was also surprised by my presence.
A quick look over my shoulder, to see if Kade was the one who had sent me over there.
Since I knew that Kade would be too busy talking to Ronan, I didn't even bother to confirm whether he was looking towards my direction.
This was confirmed from Cassian's confusion as he turned his gaze back to me, and then asked,
"Did he send you here?"
His voice was low, almost a whisper. As if he didn't want anyone hearing what he was asking me.
I slowly shook my head, wondering why he wasn't moving out of the way so that I could just continue walking, and probably find somewhere where I wasn't going to be bothered.
"Then what are you doing here?" He followed up, as he looked at me more intensely, and did a quick glance over his shoulder.
I didn't want to engage in that conversation since I doubted that it was going to lead to something good.
And just as I was about to tell him that I was just wondering off from anywhere near Kade as per his request, someone from behind him asked,
"Is that her?"
The voice was raspy and frail, and I didn't need to see who had asked to know that he was definitely old.
But even before I could look over Cassian's shoulder, I saw him roll his eyes as he straighted his back and looked at me with this expression on his face,
'Look at what you've done.'
I didn't even know what I had done, but it didn't seem to resonate well with Cassian.
That's when I started connecting the dots.
I remembered how when I looked at Cassian just a few minutes ago when I was with Kade, and how he wasn't alone.
As he stepped to the side, he revealed the group that was right behind him.
Around ten people, both men and women who were visibly past their eighties.
I was in fact looking at the Elders of the Obsidian Howl Pack.